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The Haunted Showboat
The Haunted Showboat | Carolyn Keene
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TM & 2006 Simon & Schuster, Inc.
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JuliaTheBookNerd
The Haunted Showboat | Carolyn Keene
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#Boat 🛶 #SummerSouls 🧃🌈🫧🍦🪁🐞☀️🍓🛼🍭

#BookNerd 🤓📚💙

Eggs What a collection👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 6mo
dabbe Your shelves could be the most incredible library. 💚💙💚 6mo
JuliaTheBookNerd @dabbe Well it is my own private Library of 3,353 books 🤪🤓📚💙 6mo
dabbe @JuliaTheBookNerd 😮😀🤩 6mo
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Sace
The Haunted Showboat | Carolyn Keene
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It's Nancy Drew so it's a pick, but more like a pick with caveats. It absolutely shows it's age in a cringey way. The writing and detecting are sub-par when compared to earlier books.

And hey, I can claim #doublespin victory!

(I'm pretty sure that most of my my readalong participation will be finished in the last week of the month.

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Sace
The Haunted Showboat | Carolyn Keene
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Ruthiella Pow! 💥 7mo
Librarybelle Oh no! 7mo
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Sace
The Haunted Showboat | Carolyn Keene
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“The New Orleans girl now proudly said that the United States engineers had conquered the problem of floods for the city.
‘It used to be perfectly frightening when the whole river overflowed, and the levees broke.‘”

There are quite a few reasons this Nancy Drew book is problematic. This quote isn‘t really one of them but it‘s an interesting little historical note. Just sayin‘.

KathyWheeler Oh my! This is just weird reading that now. I went on a tour of NO with a librarian group less than a year after Katrina. All the engineer leading it talked about was how the city failed with the levees — and how they cut corners. 7mo
Sace @KathyWheeler Oh wow. As I was reading I just assumed that at one time it was functional and built for catastrophic storms like Katrina and that as time went by they just never kept it in good repair. So you mean they cut corners from the get go? 7mo
KathyWheeler @Sace The engineer leading the tour said that they were told specifically to use one type of beam but they used another that wasn‘t as good but was less expensive. It was my understanding that all that mess was preventable. 7mo
Sace @KathyWheeler why am I not surprised? 7mo
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Sace
The Haunted Showboat | Carolyn Keene
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“Would a trip to the Mardi Gras interest you, Nancy, and also a mystery to solve?” Bess Marvin asked.

#FirstLineFriday @ShyBookOwl

Not sure how I feel about a definite article in front of Mardi Gras.

Side note: Mardi Gras in Mobile AL is older and tamer. IMO it would be more Nancy Drew‘s speed.

KathyWheeler I live in Mobile and agree with you about the older and tamer Mardi Gras, although we have had a couple of shootings at parades. 8mo
Sace @KathyWheeler I hate to hear that. Mobile prides itself on the more family friendly Mardis Gras doesn‘t it? 8mo
KathyWheeler @Sace Yes, it does. I‘ve lived here for over 30 years, and usually our Mardi Gras is safe. Those shootings were a shock. 8mo
Sace @KathyWheeler 😢 and hello neighbor! (Sort of.) 8mo
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wordslinger42
The Haunted Showboat | Carolyn Keene
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Andrew65 Brilliant 👏👏👏 2y
TheSpineView Awesome! 2y
TheHeartlandBookFairy This was always one of my favorites 😍 2y
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ravenlee
The Haunted Showboat | Carolyn Keene
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Nancy‘s at it again, solving a Mardi Gras mystery in NOLA! A supposedly haunted showboat deep in the bayou, a belle‘s fiancé who isn‘t what he seems, car thieves, road trips, and more - whew!

34 down for #nancydrewchallenge!

Not the best ND, with lots of racism, lower quality of writing, and lots of telling-not-showing for the wrap-up, but overall ok.

Sace I feel validated by this review. The writing is definitely not up to par. I just came off of the Clue in the Diary (7) and it‘s a definite decline from 7 to 35. 7mo
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Christinak
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When I think of #girlfriends I immediately think of Nancy, George, and Bess.
#anditsaugust

mcipher Yes!!! Great choice. ❤️ 7y
robinb Perfect! 7y
Pruzy Haha, I remember reading this book based on the cover! Don't ask me what it was about though 7y
EllieDottie Yes! 💛 7y
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KVanRead
The Haunted Showboat | Carolyn Keene
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#TBT After posting my Nancy Drew note cards for #augustphotochallenge, I started looking through my collection and discovered I'd inherited two of the covers featured on the cards from my older sisters. And when I pulled them out to have a look I discovered this article my mom sent me from The Ottawa Citizen back in 2005. #hiddentreasure #tuckedinsidebooks 🔎📚🎰

SusanInTiburon Sweeeeet! 8y
[DELETED] 2232195534 How fun! Thanks for sharing it with us!! 8y
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